10/05/2011
By P.J. LASSEK, Tulsa World Staff Writer, 10/2/2011: Among several proposals voters will decide on Nov. 8 is whether to return City Council terms to two years and have them all expire at the same time. That proposal also will ask voters whether to schedule the elections with the state and federal election cycle that falls on even years.
Voters to decide Tulsa City Council term lengths, election schedules | Tulsa World
09/27/2011
Know Before You Go - New ballot initiatives propose changes to city charter
By Jennie Lloyd, Urban Tulsa Weekly, 9-21-11: Four ballot questions hold a lot of possibility for change in Tulsa's city government. One proposal was developed by the City Council, and the other three were developed by an organization called Save Our Tulsa. All four involve some major changes to our...
08/30/2011
Tulsa World: "If you look back over the past couple of years, all the discord at City Hall between the administration and Tulsa City Council, and prior to that between the city and county has created tremendous problems and has been a tremendous impediment from an economic development perspective," Tulsa Metro Chamber President and CEO Mike Neal said this morning.
Chamber: Government upheaval hurts ability to attract business | Tulsa World
By P.J. LASSEK, Tulsa World Staff Writer, 8/29/2011: The Tulsa Metro Chamber has ramped up its political involvement both in the City Council race and on four ballot questions that seek to change the city's current form of government to help Tulsa's future. Chamber officials say government upheaval ...
08/29/2011
By P.J. LASSEK, Tulsa World Staff Writer, 8/28/2011: The Tulsa Metro Chamber and League of Woman Voters oppose the proposed changes to the city's current form of government but only to different degrees.
The league, a nonpartisan political organization, opposes all four proposed changes, but the chamber opposes two and is still considering its stance on the other two.
Chamber, League oppose change to Tulsa city government | Tulsa World
08/27/2011
By Brian Barber & PJ Lassek, Tulsa World Staff Writers, 8/26/2011: Most Tulsans support switching to a city council-city manager form of government, but few favor a competing proposal to make the mayor the council chairman and add at-large councilors, a scientific poll shows.
Poll: A rival proposal by Save Our Tulsa is unpopular